Arts & Craft episode 4: What is Art collection?
We ask our guests to explore the topic with us.
Karen Comer-Low is an adjunct Professor at Spelman College where she teaches visual arts. She’s also a curator at the Rialto, an art buyer and more.
Jerry Thomas is an art collector and archivist of African-American art based in Atlanta, Ga.
Miya Bailey is a founder and owner of City of Ink Tattoo shop in Castleberry Hill, Atlanta. He is also a sculptor, painter and illustrator.
Romare Howard Bearden was born on September 2, 1911, to (Richard) Howard and Bessye Bearden in Charlotte, North Carolina, and died in New York City on March 12, 1988, at the age of 76. His life and art are marked by exceptional talent, encompassing a broad range of intellectual and scholarly interests, including music, performing arts, history, literature and world art.
In a career spanning more than 70 years, Elizabeth Catlett has created sculptures that celebrate the heroic strength and endurance of African-American and Mexican working-class women. With simple, clear shapes she evokes both the physical and spiritual essence of her subjects. Her hardy laborers and nurturing mothers radiate both power and a timeless dignity and calm.
In 2008, legendary art collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel made an announcement that stunned the art world. Known and loved as a retired postal worker (Herb) and librarian (Dorothy) who built a world-class art collection on their humble salaries, the Vogels launched a national gift project with the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC that would constitute one of the largest gifts in the history of American art: to give a total of 2,500 artworks to museums in all fifty states…
Below, a trailer from the Documentary “Herb & Dorothy.”
He was born October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain and by the time he died in France in April of 1973, had created a staggering 22.000 works of art in a variety of mediums, including sculpture, ceramics, mosaics, stage design and graphic arts. As critic Hughes notes, “There was scarcely a 20th century movement that he didn’t inspire, contribute to or—in the case of Cubism, which, in one of art history’s great collaborations, he co-invented with Georges Braque—beget.” Quite simply, as well as being a force of culture, Picasso was also a force of nature.
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